Re: [802SEC] Coping with agenda time limits - hotels and things.

["Shellhammer, Steve" <sshellha@QUALCOMM.COM>]

Pat,

	I think we can get lots of discussion done in EC teleconferences
and make the decisions at the plenary meetings.  Clearly people have to
attend.  I do not believe there have been any meetings on topics other
than the P&P changes (e.g. meeting locations).  I would say we should
leave it up to the person leading the effort.  If they want to have it
spill over after the meeting that is fine.  If they want to prepare
before the meeting that is fine also, maybe even better.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Thaler [mailto:pat_thaler@agilent.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 2:43 PM
To: STDS-802-SEC@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: [802SEC] Coping with agenda time limits - hotels and things.

We will probably find our EC meeting time available at plenaries to be a
tight squeeze. However, our attempts to do teleconferences on specific
topics (e.g. meetings and rules) have not been successful at getting
critical mass attendance. EC topic meetings Sunday evening and during
the week also find this a challenge.

We can have the topic meetings but there is a large chance of getting to
the EC meeting and finding out those who didn't attend disagree.

I think there are two viable options:
What we are doing right now - spill over the leftovers to email
discussion and vote where at least we are getting good participation
even if we sometimes get a little testy with each other and sometimes
have to grope around on how to handle equivalents of the parliamentary
procedures we would do during a meeting. 

All agree to a fixed time and day before the meeting when we would have
regular "virtual" EC meeting over phone and meeting software (e.g.
MeetingPlace) with a similar commitment to showing up to be part of the
quorum as we have during the opening and closing EC meetings. I expect
Tony will point out that this would be difficult to schedule
conveniently for EC members outside North American time zones. Also
openness issues would have to be addressed and we would need a rules
change to do this. 

I think the first tool is adequate for most of what we have and we are
still learning to use it well. I suggest sticking with email for now.

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